CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE:
- Three Junes by Julia Glass
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Last Life by Claire Messud
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Human Stain by Philip Roth
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
- Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- if on a winter's night a traveler... by Italo Calvino
- Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo by Ntozake Shange
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Going to Meet the Man: Stories by James Baldwin
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Valencia by Michelle Tea
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- Pope Joan by Donna Norfolk Cross
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
- Waiting by Ha Jin
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
POETRY:
- The Wellspring by Sharon Olds (& all other books by Sharon Olds)
- Music for Landing Planes By by Eireann Lorsung
- American Primitive by Mary Oliver
- Coming Back to the Body by Joyce Sutphen
- Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
- The Curator of Silence by Jude Nutter
- The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche
- Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
- The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
- The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda
- Connecting the Dots by Maxine Kumin
- Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova
- Skirt Full of Black by Sun Yung Shin
- Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
- The Fact of a Doorframe by Adrienne Rich
- Eating the Honey of Words by Robert Bly
- 100 Selected Poems by ee cummings
- Festival Bone by Karen Rigby
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- My Life by Lyn Hejinian
- Killing Floor by Ai
- Rose by Li-Young Lee
- In a Time of Violence by Eavan Boland
- American Sublime by Elizabeth Alexander
MEMOIR:
- Liar's Club and Cherry by Mary Karr
- The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
- The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
- An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
- The Winged Seed by Li-Young Lee
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
OTHER NON-FICTION:
- Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
- Grayson by Lynn Cox
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- The Language Instinct by Stephen Pinker
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- What is Found There: Essays on Poetry and Politics by Adrienne Rich
DRAMA:
- Wit by Margaret Edson
- The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
- The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
- Angels in American, Parts I & II by Tony Kushner
- Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terence McNally
CLASSICS:
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- William Shakespeare's plays (in particular, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- A Doll's House by Ibsen
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Beowulf
- Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Washington Square by Henry James
- Medea by Euripides
